Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:01:46 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com> To: Peter Brezny <peter@sysadmin-inc.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A simple shell question, How do i rename multiple files? Message-ID: <20010109160146.A11647@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20010109155734.A11544@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com>; from dmaddox@sc.rr.com on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:57:34PM -0500 References: <003101c07a95$b24117a0$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com> <20010109155734.A11544@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com>
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:57:34PM -0500, Donald J . Maddox wrote:
> #!/bin/sh
> for i in *
^ Obviously, this should be '*.xxx' :/
> do
> move $i ${i%.xxx}
> done
>
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:41:31PM -0800, Peter Brezny wrote:
> > I've got a bunch of files all ending in the same extension (somename.xxx)
> >
> > I want to rename all of them to just (somename)
> >
> > I've tried
> > mv *.xxx *
> >
> > the same format with cp
> >
> > i've read the mv man page.
> >
> > This can't be that hard.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Peter Brezny
> > SysAdmin Services Inc.
> >
> >
> >
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